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each side in front. Abdomen with dorsal crests, and with a black 

 band on the fore border of each segment. Femora with a black 

 streak ; knees and tarsi black ; anterior tibia? with two black spots 

 on the upper side ; hind tibiae with one black spot. Fore wings with 

 two white spots, one at the base, the other at the tip of the discal 

 areolet ; an occasionally obsolete white spot in front of the second ; 

 two or three indistinct whitish spots on the interior border. Hind 

 wings rosy red along the interior border. Length of the body 

 10 lines ; of the wings 28 lines. 



Cambodia. In Mr. Saunders' collection. 



Genus AMMALO. 



Ammalo nantana. 



Mas. Cyanea^ crassa ; corpus nigro dense pilosum ; palpi robustly 

 oblique ascendentes, articulo So longi-conico ; antennce pectin- 

 atce ; alee anticce nigra?, basi virides, vitta subcostali lineaque 

 marginali pallide luteis ; postica? coccinece, basi fasciaque 

 marginali nigris, fimbria pallide lutea. 



Male. Deep blue, very stout. Head, palpi, thorax and abdo- 

 men towards the base thickly clothed with black hairs. Palpi stout, 

 obliquely asceuding, not rising so high as the vertex ; third joint 

 elongate-conical, not more than half the length of the second. An- 

 tenna? moderately pectinated. Abdomen hardly extending beyond 

 the hind wings. Femora pUose ; hind tibiae with rather short spurs. 

 Fore wings black, metallic-green at the base, with a pale luteous 

 slender subcostal stripe, which extends from the base nearly to the 

 exterior border ; a pale luteous marginal line commencing near the 

 base of the interior border and extending along the hind part of the 

 exterior border. Hind wings crimson, black at the base, and with a 

 black marginal band, which is narrowest at the tips, broadest 

 by the interior angle, and is notched in the middle ; fringe pale 

 luteous, except towards the tips. Length of the body 7 lines; of 

 the wings 18 lines. 



a< Nauta, Amazon Eegion. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



Genus PHRAGMATOBIA. 

 Phragmatobia vagans. 

 vagans, Bd., Clms. Proc. Acad. Nat, Sci. PkilacL xii. 536. 

 N. California, 



